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Portraits Within Portraits Within Portraits: France, German Prisoners, 1918

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April, 1918, Givenchy Road, France–this is an official war photograph of captured German soldiers.  There are hundreds of smaller photographs composing the larger full photo of this mass scene of fear, relief, exhaustion, and boredom.  Everywhere a portrait, and each portrait with a different story to tell.  

  • See this blog’s continuing series on WWI photographs, here. 

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Also see an earlier post on this site, a similar photograph, the original of which is offered for sale on the blog’s bookstore, here. 

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